The Flatout bread was excellent. If you want to make it or learn more about the ingredients, look at my blog yesterday.
Here are the pictures I took. I make a mighty good pizza.
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Low-Carb Pizza Bases for Wraps and Pizzas! Whoo Hoo!
My sister-in-law found another interesting item to try. It is Flatbread that is low carb and can be used for wraps and to make an individual pizza. So, I am now attempting to make a margarita pizza with one. They are called, Flatout, but I bought the LIGHT Flatout, which has less carbs. No sugar.
http://www.flatoutbread.com/products/flatout-wraps/flatout-light/light-italian-herb/
My whole crust has 9g of protein (really decent), high fiber at 9g and the carbs is 16g. But, net carbs is 16g carbs -9g fiber=7g of carbs!! I put a little sauce on, which is probably about 5g of carbs and there are no carbs in my mozarella cheese and hardly any in my tomatoes. Lets just say I am probably going to have a pizza that is tasty and is about 13g of net carbs at the most. What an awesome dinner and treat! I am trying to stay away from wheat, but if I do have it, it has to be once in awhile and I prefer it be either very low carb like this, or gluten-free.
You can get sugar-free pizza sauce at Netrition.com, if you need it.
So easy to make a pizza. DIRECTIONS
Set the oven at 350. Spray a cookie sheet, place the Flatout on the sheet, bake one side for one minute and then flip and bake the other side for one minute.
Put on your pizza sauce, cheese, tomatoes, basil or or whatever toppings you want on it. Bake it for 4-7 minutes or 30 seconds longer for crisp. Bam! Done.
Dinner or lunch is served. Easy and light! Perfect for a diet or your new way of LOW-CARB life like mine.
Here is a picture of someone else’s wrap and pizza. I will include my pictures later on. I think mine looks better! 🙂
Keep skinny!
EAT PIZZA, LOSE WEIGHT
Pizza!
Yes, it is delish and you don’t want to miss out on eating it on a diet. There are ways to eat pizza and stay skinny. You have two choices:
1. Exercise like crazy before and after you eat it.
2. Be careful about your choices, where you buy it and how much you eat.
I exercise, but I will not exercise like a madwoman over pizza…so I am careful.
First thing you have to know, is WHAT ARE YOU EATING?
A slice of Costco Pizza is one of the worst. 70g of carbs. Domino’s Thin Crust Cheese Only Pizza from a medium pizza is one of the best at 15g of carbs.
So, where you get your pizza from is important. If you go to a ma and pa neighborhood pizza joint and eat pizza, you might not know what the contents are in that slice.
Remember, wheat is involved, so you have to be careful. This should be a treat, not a regular food choice.
Second thing is that you find places you want to go to and ask for info on their nutritional content if you can’t find it or get it easily. I found a place nearby called Pizza Rev. They have gluten-free pizza (which is getting more popular). I contacted the company because they don’t have their nutritional content available yet. The company said that their gluten-free standard personal cheese pizza is 40g of carbs. So, if I eat half of that and some salad, I am doing great. So, I have been there now 4 times and I haven’t gained weight, in fact, I worked it in with my 50 to 100g of carbs a day and I actually went down a few ounces. I only add certain veggies and meats, which are low in carbs.
Here is a site where they give a lot of the carb and calorie content: http://www.calorieking.com/calories-in-pizza.html So do your HW before you eat. Losing weight and staying skinny is about not being lazy about food choices.
Here is an example of something that could fool someone. California Pizza Kitchen. The thin-crust Margherita pizza. You would expect it to be low (not gluten-free). The entire little pizza is 1038 calories, 98g of carbs. Even if you only ate half–that is 519 calories and 48g of carbs all in one go. You will not lose weight, you might even gain that day depending on what you eat the rest of the day.
Subway has a 6 inch pizza (who knew?). It is 680 calories and 96g of carbs in that little pizza. But, here, for the kids at Olive Garden, the Kid’s Pizza. Should be light and not that bad, right? No– it is 420 calories and 64g of whopping carbs for the kiddies. No wonder why America is getting so large. ONE slice at Chuck E Cheese is 169 calories and 24g of carbs. That isn’t bad, but what kid only eats ONE slice? How lean is a Lean Pocket pizza? 41g of carbs for the whole pizza sandwich.
So, you can eat out, but be careful where and what you eat.
And if you eat at home, you can make your own. It isn’t hard and fairly easy. I have a recipe that I have used to make a pizza with Cauliflower crust. It is really good. http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/08/the-astonishing-cauliflower-pizza-crust-you-have-to-taste-it-to-believe-it.html
Here is one that is easier pizza crust and I want to try and will follow up on it soon. http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/thinandcrispy_pizza.html
Below was my caulfilower-based home-made Margherita pizza and salad that I shared with my husband. Less than 5g of carbs per half of that 9 inch pizza. Totally delish and low carb. The base was delish and didn’t miss the pizza crust. But, if you have to have pizza crust–go online and type in low carb pizza crust and up pop a lot of sites that sell them online. Even try Amazon.com–they sell everything.
Christmas Eve and all of its Goodies
Tonight, my husband and I wanted a quiet dinner alone. I made us a delicious cauliflower-based pizza (we shared a 10 inch pizza) and had some salad. I made two, so there are leftovers.
Dinner was delish. I have Carbolite for dessert (low carb, sugar-free ice cream). My tummy is happy and I will have had low enough carbs NOT to gain weight.
I have friends who are having Chicken or Turkey dinners and that is great, as long as they stick to vegetables, salad and try to skip the pies. You can have a bite, maybe two. But, the sugar is not good for you and if you want to lose weight or MAINTAIN, unless you had no carbs all day, you can’t afford to have so many in one go. A slice has about 40g of carbs and Costco pie has 47g (they are always more carbilicious). There is 37g of sugar in a Costco pumpkin pie slice. That is about 9 sugar cubes. Apple pie has about 57g of carbs in a slice.
If you want to lose weight, you want close to 50g of carbs a day and up to 100g. If you want to maintain, you don’t want to go over 100g of carbs. If a slice of pie is HALF of your day’s carbs, what will happen if you eat your yams, potatoes, bread and other carbs too? And have a small plate of food, but please don’t get seconds!
So, eat your proteins, fibers, veggies, fruit (to a limit) and watch those carbs. You can do it. And exercise if you mess up! Go for a walk today or tomorrow–or both.
Happy Holidays from Skinny-Rules!
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